Virgin and Child with a Patron (fol. 187r)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Virgin and Child with a Patron (fol. 187r)
Other titles: Textualis Quadrata
Classmark: BC MS 5/21
Date(s): [ca. 1440-1460]
Language: Latin
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/x918s6kn
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/373018
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
6-line historiated initial 'D' with a female patron praying, and holding a book under her arm, in front of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child. The border is decorated with a butterfly, a bird, a grotesque in the form of a snail with a human head and fore legs, strawberries, periwinkles, blue thistles and cranberries.
Context: Prayers: The Fifteen Joys of the Virgin: Doulce dame de misericorde mere
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